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ribtoks:
Hi all

Memorial day is approaching and while it's already too late to create any content for it, you still can check if you have totally wasted your time before.

I analyzed the most useless niches from data perspective: https://stockphotosideas.com/blog/memorial-day-content/

I have bad news for you in case you were working on flags for Memorial day, as well as stars and statues.

Let me know if I missed anything!

Uncle Pete:
Good reading and interesting perspective. I'm not going to subscribe, I'm just not active enough, but I enjoyed what you researched.

I'm trying to understand something. Did I read all of that right? If someone uses the data and values. Shooting the most searched and popular, is a waste of time, because of the competition, we probably won't be seen. At the same time, shooting less likely subjects, going for the niche, is also a waste of time, because not many buyers are interested.

Is your conclusion, what I came to from reading the stats and data? Don't bother shooting Memorial Day subjects and images? Do something else.

Or did I miss the important obvious and valuable conclusions from all these numbers and search data?

ribtoks:

--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on May 18, 2021, 08:49 ---At the same time, shooting less likely subjects, going for the niche, is also a waste of time, because not many buyers are interested.

Is your conclusion, what I came to from reading the stats and data? Don't bother shooting Memorial Day subjects and images? Do something else.

Or did I miss the important obvious and valuable conclusions from all these numbers and search data?

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the feedback! And no, it's not the conclusion I aimed at. There are profitable niches with customer interest and not so fierce competition. This is the whole point of Stock Photo Ideas service. You can find some examples in the newsletter example: https://stockphotosideas.com/newsletter-example/

As for the Memorial Day itself, it's indeed hard to find as many opportunities as for other niches, but there still are some!

ShadySue:
I had to Google Memorial Day, whereby I can happily confirm I have not wasted a second creating images representing it.

Uncle Pete:

--- Quote from: ribtoks on May 19, 2021, 02:43 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on May 18, 2021, 08:49 ---At the same time, shooting less likely subjects, going for the niche, is also a waste of time, because not many buyers are interested.

Is your conclusion, what I came to from reading the stats and data? Don't bother shooting Memorial Day subjects and images? Do something else.

Or did I miss the important obvious and valuable conclusions from all these numbers and search data?

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the feedback! And no, it's not the conclusion I aimed at. There are profitable niches with customer interest and not so fierce competition. This is the whole point of Stock Photo Ideas service. You can find some examples in the newsletter example: https://stockphotosideas.com/newsletter-example/

As for the Memorial Day itself, it's indeed hard to find as many opportunities as for other niches, but there still are some!

--- End quote ---

I agree with the niche part, and I've tried to find those and create. I just didn't understand if your point was, don't bother with Memorial Day images. Actually there are some subjects that we can shoot, and upload, but we should NOT expect to get any good sales. Memorial Day for example.  :) (Sunsets, flowers, sliced vegetables, pets, and a number of things that since the first day, agencies have said "we don't really need more of these".)

Yet before everyone here jumps on me, yes we have all uploaded some of those and had downloads. That's not the point. What I'm saying is, they won't do as well as other subjects that are in short supply and have some customer demand. That's a niche shot, not something that's not in the collections and that hardly any buyer will ever want or search for either. And not something that has hundreds of thousands of similar and over supplied examples.

Can you give us an example of a "good" memorial day subject or composition, that your data and research has discovered, that someone SHOULD create? I missed it.

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